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This is the first in a two-part series of posts on how to migrate a multi-TB database to Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that automates setup, operation, backups, high availability, and scaling of databases while granting access to the […]

Migrating an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL database from one AWS account to another is a common use case in scenarios when you acquire, sell, or merge operations, or if you’re reorganizing your AWS accounts and organizational structure. In this post, we discuss the steps and best […]

In this post, we walk you through a procedure to migrate the PostgreSQL database from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud SQL to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL. To accomplish this task, we use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), a data migration and replication service. Using AWS DMS you can do the […]

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. In this post, we discuss how to create the data pipelines from Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and publish changes to your destination store. Amazon DocumentDB (with […]

Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL includes support for the SQL Server wire-protocol and T-SQL, which is the query language used in Microsoft SQL Server. This means that developers can use Babelfish to run their existing SQL Server applications on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition without having to switch database drivers or completely rewrite their queries. If you’re […]

Oracle database administrators rely on tools such as Oracle’s Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) report to identify and resolve issues that are occurring in a database. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle allows you to create read replicas to offload read-only workloads. Because the instances are read only, you can’t generate AWR reports to […]

In Part 1 of this series, we gave a high-level introduction to an AWS Nitro Enclaves-based Web3Signer blockchain validation and signing service. We explained the purpose of running blockchain validators and also why Nitro Enclaves are well suited to run security sensitive cryptographic workloads. We furthermore covered the high-level application architecture and briefly explained the […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. Every table in DynamoDB has a schema which specifies if it has a simple partition key (for pure key-value lookups), or a partition key and sort key both (for more complex query patterns). You use these […]

Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL includes support for the SQL Server wire-protocol and T-SQL, which is the query language used in Microsoft SQL Server. This means that developers can use Babelfish to run their existing SQL Server applications on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition without having to switch database drivers or completely rewrite their queries. When migrating […]

In this two-part series, we demonstrated how to use Amazon Timestream database and its built-in time series functionalities to identify the harmonic issues at scale through correlating metrics for millions of customers and automate the process for large-scale data handling. An electricity utility normally engages in electricity generation and distribution of electricity to end users, […]